Zuzana Šochová on Becoming an Agile Leader
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Key Takeaways
Leadership is a state of mind; you don’t need to have any positional power to become an agile leader
Having a critical mass of agile leadership is crucial for any agile environment
Agile leaders see an organization as a living organism, leveraging the power of influence
Agile leaders need to be able to create an environment where teams can design their own goals towards the organizational purpose
Working with teams and organizations requires you to step back and gain insight, to feel the system
The book The Agile Leader by Zuzana Šochová explains the need for agile leaders and explores what agile leadership looks like. It describes the skills of agile leaders, practices that they use, and provides exercises and assessments that can be used to become an agile leader.
Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2021
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There are dramatic differences between good and bad remote work cultures
Management practices are evolving to adapt to the new ways of working and the expectations of the workforce
Creating real psychological safety and focusing on employee experience is hard, but pays off in terms of engagement, motivation and outcomes
Ethical issues, diversity and inclusion and tech for good make a difference and need to be addressed purposefully.
COVID-19 was the largest influence of change in the culture and methods space in 2020 and the knock on effects in 2021 are driving many of the trends we see at this time. The previous trends report was released early in the pandemic and we now have a year’s worth of content to explore how the IT world has adapted and responded. There have been many examples of great collaboration, teamwork and adapting to new ways of working along with plenty of stories of hardship, Zoom Fatigue, mental